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LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Roguevictory   » Sun Jun 01, 2014 3:00 am

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I know LAC missiles have warheads equivalent to standard CL/DD grade missiles but do they have the same drive range as a single drive CL/DD weapon? I was discussing this with a friend, and I believe I read somewhere that they were shorter ranged than a DD/CL missile despite having an equivalent warhead but I can't recall where I read that, assuming that I am remembering correctly.
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Theemile   » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:41 pm

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Roguevictory wrote:I know LAC missiles have warheads equivalent to standard CL/DD grade missiles but do they have the same drive range as a single drive CL/DD weapon? I was discussing this with a friend, and I believe I read somewhere that they were shorter ranged than a DD/CL missile despite having an equivalent warhead but I can't recall where I read that, assuming that I am remembering correctly.



It's mentioned in AAC that the RMN LACS have the same missile range as the Havenite CA/BCs with single drive missiles at BoMA

There were still thirty-three battlecruisers and forty-one heavy cruisers waiting for the incoming strike, ready to begin punching missiles at it as soon as they had the range. But the Manticoran LACs' closing velocity was over fifty thousand kilometers per second. Current-generation Havenite single-drive missiles had a powered range from rest of just over seven million kilometers. Given the geometry, they had a theoretical maximum range of almost 16.5 million, as did the LACs' attack missiles. That sounded like a lot . . . except that, at the Manticorans' closing velocity, they would streak straight across the entire engagement envelope in 317 seconds.

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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Roguevictory   » Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:07 pm

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I guess I was remembering incorrectly than. Thanks.
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by drothgery   » Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:38 pm

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Roguevictory wrote:I guess I was remembering incorrectly than. Thanks.

You might have been thinking of Vipers, which are shorter-ranged than standard LAC offensive missiles.
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Roguevictory   » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:10 pm

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drothgery wrote:
Roguevictory wrote:I guess I was remembering incorrectly than. Thanks.

You might have been thinking of Vipers, which are shorter-ranged than standard LAC offensive missiles.



Yeah I must have read about the Vipers being shorter-ranged and thought it applied to the ship-killers as well.
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Relax   » Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:55 pm

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Roguevictory wrote:Yeah I must have read about the Vipers being shorter-ranged and thought it applied to the ship-killers as well.


Keep thinking an upcoming book will have Vipers with ability to go to 1/2 power and 3x duration. Ah, 65,000g @225s. :D

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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Jonathan_S   » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:31 pm

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Relax wrote:
Roguevictory wrote:Yeah I must have read about the Vipers being shorter-ranged and thought it applied to the ship-killers as well.


Keep thinking an upcoming book will have Vipers with ability to go to 1/2 power and 3x duration. Ah, 65,000g @225s. :D

16+ Mkm raaaaangeeeeeeee.
Although if the drives can do that, then can they still do it if scaled up to DD/CL weight missiles?

Because 16 million km is marginally more than 50% power LERM range; and crossing that range in roughly 35 less seconds is nothing to sneeze at. 2nd Gen LERMs :D
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by lyonheart   » Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:19 am

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Hi All,

I don't recall a reference to the Mk-31/Viper tonnage compared to the 12.5 ton old 1 M km CM, let alone the 1.5 M km of SoS, so I've expected something in the 25-30 ton range, has there been an update I missed?

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Jonathan_S wrote:
Relax wrote:**quote="Roguevictory"**
Yeah I must have read about the Vipers being shorter-ranged and thought it applied to the ship-killers as well.**/quote**

Keep thinking an upcoming book will have Vipers with ability to go to 1/2 power and 3x duration. Ah, 65,000g @225s. :D

16+ Mkm raaaaangeeeeeeee.
Although if the drives can do that, then can they still do it if scaled up to DD/CL weight missiles?

Because 16 million km is marginally more than 50% power LERM range; and crossing that range in roughly 35 less seconds is nothing to sneeze at. 2nd Gen LERMs :D
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Relax   » Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:22 am

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lyonheart wrote:Hi All,

I don't recall a reference to the Mk-31/Viper tonnage compared to the 12.5 ton old 1 M km CM, let alone the 1.5 M km of SoS, so I've expected something in the 25-30 ton range, has there been an update I missed?

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Nope. Ya haven't gone that senile yet.

We will all let ya know when that happens :D
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Re: LAC Shipkiller missile range?
Post by Roguevictory   » Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:01 am

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Relax wrote:
Roguevictory wrote:Yeah I must have read about the Vipers being shorter-ranged and thought it applied to the ship-killers as well.


Keep thinking an upcoming book will have Vipers with ability to go to 1/2 power and 3x duration. Ah, 65,000g @225s. :D

16+ Mkm raaaaangeeeeeeee.



It might be possible but I'm not sure how often the Vipers will be appearing for a while since SL LACS are almost certainly vastly inferior to their GA counterparts.
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